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   by bhousel 15y ago

   There are a lot of trust issues in sending data that way. 1. First you have to trust the machine in the internet cafe. It might have viruses or keyloggers. You can maybe get around this by using your own laptop, but not allowed in most pla
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   by bhousel 15y ago

   You can't send secure communications over a compromised network of ISPs. Well, you can, but not without looking suspicious. I really think you may as well forget about using the Internet for this. A better solution is to just use external
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   by bhousel 15y ago

   Oddly, I was able to tether for free on my Epic using the mobile hotspot app until Sprint pushed out the Froyo update about a month ago. Guess it's time to look into those 3rd party firmwares.
4. 484.▲
   by bhousel 15y ago

   You could pgp encrypt anything that you really don't to be read in transit. Short of that, you might as well assume that your emails are being read and stored by third parties. Even if you personally use the most secure email server in the
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   by bhousel 16y ago

   Wow, that's a very good idea. If anything, I think you might be able to charge more. I think 3 free designs/month is very generous.
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   by bhousel 16y ago

   Really, you'd pay $20 to install a ringer quieting app on another person's phone in the same room, rather than just walking over and turning it off or talking to the person? wtf, people.
7. 487.▲
   by bhousel 16y ago

   It's just an app to toggle my wifi settings and change my ringer volume. It's not enough of a pain point to be worth $10 to me.
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   by bhousel 16y ago

   Thanks for that! I think paying $10 for Locale seems a bit much.
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   by bhousel 16y ago

   I believe that row is a mistake too.. Here is the record that seems to be throwing off the average: http://www.immihelp.com/h1b-sponsoring-companies-database/vi... The web app mentioned in the article is really great for searching and giv
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Compulsory chess education may work in Armenia, where chess has achieved almost 'national pastime' status, but it would fail terribly in the UK or US. Westerners are incredibly strong-willed, and you'd probably incite more interest in ches
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    The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur(jamesaltucher.com)

    7 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Hmm, yes that would make sense. I've probably been flagging more stories than upvoting lately. Didn't realize it might be a black mark on my record.
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    Ask PG: What happened to the flag button?

    3 points by bhousel 16y ago|3 comments
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    I believe HN autokills stories with "poker" in the title, but you can get around it by submitting with an innocuous title and renaming the story after it's been accepted. I used to try to submit the more interesting articles from codingthew
15. 495.▲
    by bhousel 16y ago

    Have you considered coordinating with the original authors to compile them into a book? It's really easy to self publish to Kindle now.
16. 496.▲
    by bhousel 16y ago

    Actually, no. Starting a website is nothing like having a baby. I think this may be the dumbest thing I've read all week.
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    The Russian Fox and the Evolution of Intelligence(ribbonfarm.com)

    2 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Distributed Transcation as said by RDBMS companies actually is 'Distributed as long as nothing goes wrong'. Of course, that's the point of ACID. When something does go wrong, your database will rollback the distributed transaction and th
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Every major RDBMS that supports ACID compliant distributed transactions does exactly this.
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Unfortunately for the author's hypothesis, there are two very significant words that don't appear in this article anywhere: "resource" and "lock"
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    I'm not sold on the efficacy of clinical decision support systems (like Watson) in healthcare. Here is a recent study comparing quality of care using EHR/CDSS and without: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/archintern... "
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Given the timing of the post, I'm assuming Jordan is talking more about Techstars NYC demo day.
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    That's actually another advantage of online interaction. In real life, you wouldn't be able to google something mid-conversation, so you'd basically need to sidetrack the conversation to be brought up to speed.
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Even Rails has a standardized stack at this point. It does? What is it this week?
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    I don't think you read the original blog post... But good for you, since it was crap and my only goal in that comment was to point that out quickly and politely.
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Wine popularity absolutely does follow a power law distribution. The leading brands are ones like Yellowtail, Woodbridge, Beringer, Cavit, and Sutter Home.
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Apologies for not being precise enough (I actually posted that same link in a response below). With Javascript you can get the user's GMT offset and DST observance. You can't get the political name of the timezone or precise mapping to Ols
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    They were one-off meetings, but I think we could have done recurring meetings with the data that we were storing. I see what you mean about the different timezones in PHP - these are based off the Olsen timezone database. I do think the be
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    What's old is new again(reddit.com)

    4 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bhousel 16y ago

    Working on a Kindle and Nook ebook lending site in my spare time: http://www.booklends.com Unfortunately nobody can log in today, as I'm making a few changes following a sternly worded letter from Amazon ;-)